About 8 Mines and Prospects

Occurrence in Cherokee county in Alabama, United States with commodities Manganese, Cobalt
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067531
MRDS ID W000313
Record type Site
Current site name About 8 Mines and Prospects
Related records 10136385

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.41662, 34.00015 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cherokee(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rome(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rome(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Coosa(hydrologic unit)

Coosa-Tallapoosa(hydrologic accounting unit)

Alabama(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Cherokee
United States Alabama Cleburne

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Cobalt Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hollandite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.41662, 34.00015

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rock Run Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • INSIGNIFICANT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PIERCE, W. G., 1944, U.S.G.S. BULL. 940-J, P. 265-285

  • Reserve-Resource

    UNPUBLISHED CO-NI REPORTS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Coury, Anny B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.